Otto Kapfinger
Otto Kapfinger (born May 12, 1949 in St. Pölten ) is an Austrian architect , author and publicist .
Life
Otto Kapfinger studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology from 1967 to 1972 . In 1970, together with Angela Hareiter and Adolf Krischanitz, he founded the Missing Link architectural group , which realized artistic objects, graphics, actions, performances and experimental films. In 1980 the group was dissolved. From 1978 to 1992 Kapfinger was a board member of the Austrian Society for Architecture .
Kapfinger is a scientific advisor to the Vienna Architecture Center . He is internationally known as an architectural researcher and critic and author of numerous publications on architecture. Kapfinger was a reviewer and architecture critic for the daily newspaper Die Presse from 1981 to 1990 . As a curator he initiated exhibitions on architecture of the 20th century in Austria, for example in 1980 Austrian New Wave in New York in collaboration with Adolf Krischanitz. From 1997 to 1998 Otto Kapfinger was visiting professor at the University of Design in Linz . The International Architecture Symposium “Man and Space” held in 1984 at the Vienna University of Technology, attended by Bruno Zevi , Dennis Sharp , Pierre Vago , Jorge Glusberg , Justus Dahinden , Frei Otto , Paolo Soleri , Ernst Gisel and Ionel Schein , attracted international attention participated.
Otto Kapfinger is also a member of the jury , for example at the Austrian Builder Award , the Builder Award in Tyrol and the Carinthian State Building Award.
Buildings
- with Missing Link: Kuoni travel agency, Vienna (1980)
- with Missing Link: Nagiller House, Perchtoldsdorf (1981)
- with Missing Link: Hiermanseder House, Schwarzach im Pongau (1982)
- with Adolf Krischanitz: Conversion of the Vienna Secession building (1986)
Publications
- with Adolf Krischanitz: The Wiener Werkbundsiedlung . Documentation of a renewal . 1985, ISBN 3-215-06159-7
- with Walter Zschokke : Architecture in Lower Austria 1986-1997 . Birkhäuser: 1997, ISBN 3-7643-5746-0
- Architecture in Vorarlberg Since 1980 . Hatje Cantz: 1999, ISBN 3-7757-1128-7
- Pronounced . Anton Pustet: Salzburg 1999, ISBN 3-7025-0406-0
- Upcoming architecture . Springer: Vienna / New York 2000, ISBN 3-211-83307-2
- Building in Tyrol since 1980. A guide to 260 buildings worth seeing . Anton Pustet: Salzburg 2002, ISBN 3-7025-0436-2
- with Bart Lootsma : Transmodernity. Austrian Architects. Henke and Schreieck Jabornegg & Palffy Riegler Riewe . Anton Pustet: Salzburg 2002, ISBN 3-7025-0445-1
- New architecture in Burgenland and West Hungary (German - Hungarian - Croatian) . Anton Pustet: Salzburg 2004, ISBN 3-7025-0495-8
- Architecture in the language area . Park Books: Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-906027-58-6
Awards
- 1996 Lower Austrian Culture Prize for Architecture
- 1997 Prize of the City of Vienna for Journalism
- 2005 Prize of the State of Carinthia for special achievements in architecture and services to building culture
- 2019 honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology
Web links
- Otto Kapfinger. In: arch INFORM .
- Literature by and about Otto Kapfinger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in nextroom
Individual evidence
- ↑ NÖN: Otto Kapfinger is now an honorary doctor . Article dated May 22, 2019, accessed May 22, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kapfinger, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect, author and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Polten |